THE POWER TO BELIEVE

King Crimson had always been different through the years. Even Robert Fripp said that KC was just something that will always change (something like that) and this album shows that KC is still on his nowhere journey, where no one knows where it'll ends. Most people must know that the KC of today isn't the same as the early KC back in '69, and the KC in the Wetton/Bruford era... It's not a typical kind of music repeating album from album, it's always turning into something different.

"The Power To Believe" is still an excellent progressive rock album. KC still offers good ballad like "Eyes Wide Open", which you can compare to "Book Of Saturday". Songs like "Facts Of Life" or "Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With" can be view as modern version of old KC heavy songs. "Level Five" and "Elektrik" looks like "Larks' Tongues In Aspic" modern version with the new Fripp "duels guitar" (Fripp plays one note each 8th notes, and Belew plays 8th notes but each 16th notes, for example...it's hard to explain in english for a french guy like me hehe...) And there are songs with incredible noise and sounds that are melodics like "The Power To Believe II: Power Circle".

If you're like me and you're ready to face the band evolution you'll love this album. It's like KC turning into electro prog-rock. They're still good and check out their "Eyes Wide Open" DVD, it's awesome even if it's pratically new songs, it's still incredible to see this thing playing live.